Exqueeze me?! Mainstream GOP?!
Ok, fess up, who put the pods in our cellar?!
“What would the Democrats say?”
And now we have a President who not only doesn’t give a crap what they say, he turns it right back on them and doubles down.
Ane the economy booms, and we no longer bow to the world, they scramble to get back in our good graces.
LONG past time for Ryan and McConnel and the other Bush acolytes to leave the stage.
Yeah me too brother.
I also remember when our beloved navy didnt have warships colliding with huge ass...slow freighters either.
Oh, yes, so do I remember those days at FreeRepublic. Seems the only sanity in each day during those 34 days of not knowing for sure who would be President.
And yes, your statement was predictive.
Uh, perhaps you were smarter than Karl Rove!!
OUCH. That'll leave a mark.
As do I. We call them the good ol’ days now. That’s when thoughtful, reasoned debate seemed to be more the rule of the day and not the exception it is now.
VDARE still remains as a banned site on FR. Should that be revisited?
(((ping)))
I don’t ever remember a time when it was easy to get banned from free republic. The most difficult times I remember were the Rudi Guiliani campaign and this past Trump campaign. In those FR decided not to support Giuliani and to support Trump. Those were announced and fair notice given, and that was for election solidarity reasons.
I never recall FR being mainstream GOP, but the Bush/Rather falsified documents and the Sore Loserman meme certainly had us sided with GW. I was. I’m saddened by what has since transpired with him.
He mentions FreeRepublic but doesn’t give any solid reference point to an article or thread.
I’m not saying it’s false but his work is incomplete. Doesn’t mention any Freepers at all.
I was much later to the party, but I did note 4 years ago, after the 2014 elections, that the Republicans swept the South, winning every statewide race by 20 points, including against the Abortion Barbie. What gave us the 20 points? It certainly wasn’t the black vote, despite their large numbers and percentages. It was whites voting between 76 and 89 Republican in the Southern states, because they were so sick of Obama. It was also Hispanics voting 40% Republican, DESPITE no attempt at pandering to them (in fact, just the opposite here in Texas that year).
Apply those numbers to states, like the Upper Midwest, which are still mostly white, and you have an election lock, as Trump showed.
Then comes 2016 and Trump. There was a guy, and I never got his name, a Republican ‘strategist’ with access to big money, who told all the candidates (prior to Trump announcing), that NOT A DIME of the big money would come their way if they made immigration an issue - I guess because it was ‘divisive’?!?
So the country’s MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE was off-limits to the Republicans...that’s what our party had degenerated to.
...and then Trump came.
You werent the only one trying to tell them!!
The post Cold War Uniparty in action!
Bush - Bent One - Bush - Soetoro....all gave us the real man in the White House today.
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But how can the Democrats build an “excited, diverse coalition” among people who, by definition, don’t really have much in common?
I believe thats called a RIOT.
Well-stated and well-reasoned as usual, Matt.
I have grown weary of feeling bad about being white. It’s become okay for every non-white person to harbor cultural and, dare I say, tribal feelings of disdain for whites or any other race not their own, but a white man positioning himself for self-preservation is considered racist and bigoted and short-sighted and hateful.
More and more, however, I find private discussions reveal a boldness in opinion toward that self-preservation among white friends. It’s not a malicious, hateful want. It’s a critical understanding of one’s place in the world and how we got here. I don’t wish harm or want to see any one person, group, race, or culture fall short. I want all of us to be brought afloat by rising tides. The idea of chaining white people to the bottom of the pool while trying to fill it with tea cups is hilarious at first blush but then terrifying when those of us chained to the drain realize they’re serious in their desires.
Thank you for speaking out on this. I don’t identify myself as Italian or Scottish or German or any of the number of other cultures making up my pedigree. I am white by the identification of my skin pigmentation. Otherwise, I am American. That used to mean something, and I feel it’s starting to again.
Good to hear from you Travis. Every picture I see of someone setting in the cockpit or doing the Captain Morgan on that downed Jap Zero on Pagan Island I just think thats the coolest thing.
Eagles Up !!
Ah, the good ol’ Bush vigilante days.
Patriots vs. open border globalists.
Demographics is destiny
Later.
Sailer has done great analytic work, including on race, culture, and IQ. I realize his work makes the cucumber sandwich crowd uncomfortable. But if he is still banned then we are missing out on some solid work worthy of discussion.
5....4....3.....2....1....... and it’s gone.....